Giving Grief Meaning: A Method for Transforming Deep Suffering into Healing and Positive Change
A Grief and Trauma Recovery and Wellness Guide
"Such a wise, gentle book, born of great loss, on healing, grief and transformation."─Anne Lamott, American novelist and non-fiction writer
Finalist 2020 Indie Book Award for Mind, Body and Spirit
How inspired qualities and affirmations helped one mother honor her loved one, cope with grief, and give grief meaning.
Help through the mourning process using self-healing methods. How do you make sense of loss and tragedy? After the sudden and devastating loss of her infant daughter, Lily Dulan (a marriage and family therapist, psychotherapist and certified yoga teacher) meditated, prayed, and ruminated on the only thing she had left–her baby girl’s name. In Lily’s courage to address and move through her pain, she developed a cross pollination of proven psychological modalities, 12-step wellness tools, spiritual healing applications, meditations, and ancient yoga. She calls this self-help process “The Name Work”. In her heartfelt memoir, Lily shares her healing journey and her method for unleashing the power in names and giving them special meaning to help move through the grief process in a thoughtful and transformative way.
What’s in a name? Meanings! The Name Work method teaches you how to assign special meaning and qualities to the letters in names–a deceased loved one’s or your own–and how to create positive affirmations for each letter’s attribute. It is a tangible and personal self-healing method for whatever obstacles arise; a unique, new wellness tool for healing and self-discovery.
The Name Work also includes:
- Affirmations, self-guided questions, meditations, and practices
- An A-Z dictionary of qualities to help create your own affirmations
- Life hacks for addictive behaviors and moving though trauma and loss
- A first-hand account of the author’s personal healing journey
If you benefited from books like Finding Meaning, It’s OK That You’re Not OK, or Healing After Loss, then you’ll be inspired by Giving Grief Meaning.
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Book details
- Author
- Lily Dulan
- Imprint
- TMA Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 224
- Formats
- Paperback
- Subjects
- Self-Help › Death, Grief, Bereavement
Mind, Body, Spirit › Inspiration & Personal Growth
Self-Help › Meditations
Self-Help › Spiritual - Topics
- grief and bereavement · loss of a child · spiritual healing · affirmations · meditation · trauma recovery · personal transformation · grief memoir
- ISBN-13
- 9781642503135
About the author
LILY DULAN is an MFT Psychotherapist and the creator of The Name Work®, a heart-centered system of healing and moving through trauma drawn from both Eastern and Western disciplines. She holds a Master of Arts in Psychology and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Antioch University, Los Angeles, as well as a Master of Arts in Teaching from Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts.
When she’s not writing, Dulan facilitates The Name Work workshops for universities, organizations, corporations, and private groups throughout the greater Los Angeles area. She also leads The Kara Love Project, a foundation serving marginalized youth alongside organizations including the Unatti Foundation in Nepal, Venice Arts in Los Angeles, and Foster Nation, as well as seniors in Los Angeles County.
Lily lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two daughters.